Public Sentiment Drift Analysis Based on Hierarchical Variational Auto-encoder

Wenyue Zhang, Xiaoli Li, Yang Li, Suge Wang, Deyu Li, Jian Liao, Jianxing Zheng


Abstract
Detecting public sentiment drift is a challenging task due to sentiment change over time. Existing methods first build a classification model using historical data and subsequently detect drift if the model performs much worse on new data. In this paper, we focus on distribution learning by proposing a novel Hierarchical Variational Auto-Encoder (HVAE) model to learn better distribution representation, and design a new drift measure to directly evaluate distribution changes between historical data and new data. Our experimental results demonstrate that our proposed model achieves better results than three existing state-of-the-art methods.
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2020.emnlp-main.307
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Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
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November
Year:
2020
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Online
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Bonnie Webber, Trevor Cohn, Yulan He, Yang Liu
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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3762–3767
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.307
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.307
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Wenyue Zhang, Xiaoli Li, Yang Li, Suge Wang, Deyu Li, Jian Liao, and Jianxing Zheng. 2020. Public Sentiment Drift Analysis Based on Hierarchical Variational Auto-encoder. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 3762–3767, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Public Sentiment Drift Analysis Based on Hierarchical Variational Auto-encoder (Zhang et al., EMNLP 2020)
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